It’s said that the truth will set you free, well in this case, it will get you fired. ESPN has suspended the often outspoken Curt Schilling after he tweeted a statistic about Muslim extremists. The tweet went as follows…
“It is said that only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists . . . In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?”
Almost instantly a firestorm erupted. ESPN removed Schilling from its Little League broadcast team following the tweet, saying in a statement it had removed the former hurler and implied that further action could be taken “pending further consideration”.“Curt’s tweet was completely unacceptable, and in no way represents our company’s perspective.” ESPN wrote.
Schilling later caved and tweeted that he accepts his suspension: “I understand and accept my suspension. 100% my fault. Bad choices have bad consequences and this was a bad decision in every way on my part.”
So was his tweet politically correct? Okay no, but it does speak to a powerful issue that is too often ignored. Muslim extremism is a very dangerous subject. We are talking about a religion that has yet to seriously condemn the radical Islamists, even when they kill!
We all know how evil the Ku Klux Klan is, but Islamic terrorists murder more people every DAY than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 70 years! 30 out of the 32 criminals on the FBI’s most wanted list are Muslim. The other two are left-wing liberal nut jobs, go figure.
We shouldn’t be afraid to point out statistics like this. This is a religion that KILLS people for being gay, yet no LGBT group will confront them. This is a religion that RAPES and MURDERS women for not properly obeying men, yet no feminist group will dare take them on. Why? Why are we so afraid to speak the truth when it comes to Islam?
“If our years of dialogue with literally hundreds of Muslims have taught us anything, it is that, irrespective of their confidence, most have only a superficial understanding of their religion. Some are secular and very few made the choice to even be Muslim. As with all religion, there are widely varying degrees of seriousness with which the teachings of Islam are taken.
As Ayaan Hirsi Ali put it, “Muslims as individuals can choose how much of their religion they practice.”
But to be punished for simply acknowledging the radical parts of this religion is ludicrous. It doesn’t sound like freedom of speech to me.
The Student Body President Desmond Miller and EMU President Susan Martin get an ‘A’ in dhimmitude and cowardice. They caved in record time when approximately 35 students (all either Muslims or useful idiots) stormed the stage during a showing of American Sniper. Chris Kyle was a genuine American hero and the greatest military sniper in history. He was known for taking down our enemies… now our enemies, who have infiltrated our universities, are taking down America.
From Top Right News:
Muslim students continue to wage jihad against one of America’s most admired war heroes, using protest and intimidation to shut down showing of ‘American Sniper’ on college campuses.
Earlier this month the U. of Michigan cancelled a showing after Muslims called the subject of the record-breaking film, the late Chris Kyle, a “racist” and “mass killer” — only to reverse themselves after a huge outcry that included their new football coach Jim Harbaugh.
Last weekend, another Michigan college, Eastern Michigan University, planned to show two screenings of ‘American Sniper.’
But during the first showing, four protesters climbed onstage at the Student Center Auditorium chanting anti-American slogans and demanding the screening be stopped. The four were briefly arrested:
Four students at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) were arrested Friday after disrupting and causing the cancellation of a screening of American Sniper.
The Echo, EMU’s student newspaper, reported that roughly 35 students walked onto the stage at the Student Center Auditorium in protest during the 8P.M. screening of the Academy Award-winning film. The group of students worked together to try to shut down the 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. screenings of the film about the deceased Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.
“The reality is, this is about a process of not allowing cultural appropriation for the movies being allowed into the university.”
This idiot progressive Islamist doesn’t even understand his own liberal claptrap. So-called “appropriation” is when White people anger ethnic activists by wearing a turban, or sombrero. All American Sniper portrays is Chris Kyle killing the enemy. But if you support that enemy over America, that certainly might upset you.
Protest leaders Ahmed Abbas, Layali Alsadah, Jenna Hamed, and Sabreen Dari were arrested after attempting to shut down the 8 P.M. screening. The protesters were successful in getting the 10 P.M. screening cancelled.
How were they “successful”? By getting surrender monkeys who run the school to knuckle under, which they did:
Student Body President Desmond Miller, the decision to cancel the second showing was a joint-decision he made with EMU President Susan Martin: “The conversation we had wanted to make sure student safety was at the forefront. We wanted to make sure whatever happens, students would be safe. The second part of it, which is actually just as important as the first part, was making sure we have a very serious dialogue about the movie and the propaganda associated with this movie,” Miller told The Echo.
Completely caved to violent intimidation (“student safety”) and Islamofascist ideology — accusing the film itself of propaganda, instead of the anti-American Muslim students themselves.
Pathetic.
Want to give EMU President Susan Martin a piece of your mind?
You can do so at 734.487.2211734.487.2211, or via email HERE.
I would definitely give Susan Martin a call and/or an email and voice your opinion here. Calling American Sniper propaganda is just unacceptable and totally unpatriotic. It’s bad enough they backed down in the face of violent intimidation… I’d hate to see what they did in a real battle with weapons. They would probably cower in a corner, pleading for the Muslims not to hurt them and wet themselves. It reminds me of the mayor in Red Dawn who threw his support behind the Russians to save his own worthless hide. That didn’t work either. So, these Student Body and University leaders champion Islamofascists and kneel before our enemy. That’s a heck of a lesson to teach at the college level. It’s Surrender 101 and just pathetic in the extreme.
Daniel Greenfield is one of my all time favorite journalists, this is a spot on article by Daniel, and watch the video at the end of the article as well.
When the Polk Awards decided to honor the murdered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, one obvious name came to mind. Gary Trudeau.
Gary Trudeau
If there is one man who represents the opposite of what the Charlie cartoonists did, it’s Trudeau. They took risks, Trudeau takes none. They lived knowing that they could be killed at any moment. There is no person on earth who would bother killing Gary Trudeau even if it was Kill Gary Trudeau Day.
Trudeau is that paradoxical creature, the establishment cartoonist, the party satirist, the hack who dares to say exactly what he is expected to say. Imagine NPR in a few black and white sketches. That’s Trudeau’s Doonesbury. Republicans are bad. Liberals are good. And then insert a topical reference.
The Polk Awards were the best forum for Trudeau. George Polk invented heroic wartime exploits that got him a job at CBS. Unlike Brian Williams, Polk did serve, but he was not a fighter pilot, he serviced aircraft. In Greece, his dubious reporting attacking Truman and the Greek government was defended by his lefty colleagues by inventing even more imaginary heroics that he had never claimed for himself.
By the time they were done, Polk had singlehandedly defeated the Japanese.
After Polk was murdered by Greek Communists, American lefties went all out to prove that there had been a conspiracy by the Greek government to silence him. All it took to believe in the Polk Conspiracy was a willingness to disregard the entire history of Communist activities and how casually its armed bands, agents and guerrillas killed people across the entire political spectrum for minor offenses.
But these revelations have not in any way interfered with the Polk Awards. And the Polk Awards decided to make Gary Trudeau the first cartoonist honored with an award. Trudeau would join a seminar on “Dangerous Lines: Cartoonists and Other Subversives” featuring such dangerous subversives as a writer for The Onion and Obama sycophant Jules Feiffer. It was a seminar so dangerously and outrageously subversive it could have been held at Whole Foods.
Trudeau reciprocated by blasting the murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonists as free speech absolutists and bigots. He claimed that the cartoons of Mohammed did not “challenge authority” and argued that “Satire punches up, against authority of all kinds, the little guy against the powerful.”
While the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists had challenged the authority of a system of theocracy over a thousand years old, Trudeau’s latest cartoon mocks people stockpiling gasoline.
Trudeau’s rant, published in The Atlantic as “The Abuse of Satire”, claims that Charlie had pandered to the Jews while offending Muslims, described Muslims arrested for supporting the attacks as having exercised their freedom of speech, and contended that by, “attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons, Charlie wandered into the realm of hate speech”.
Supporting killing cartoonists for drawing Mohammed is free speech. Drawing Mohammed is hate speech.
That’s certainly a subversive idea, but it subverts such things as Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion. It subverts the idea that a cartoonist shouldn’t be killed for challenging a theocracy.
But then what else can an establishment hack denied an administration he can oppose, subvert? When the establishment of the left is in charge, the only things left to subvert are the barriers to the absolute rule of the left.
Dangerous subversives become the destroyers of democracy fighting against free speech absolutists. The dangerous subversive stops dangerously subverting and instead lectures on the appropriate uses of satire. He becomes a commissar who censors with one hand and cartoons with the other.
Real satire exists to challenge the sorts of people who would set out appropriate uses of it. State satire isn’t satire. Soviet cartoonists in Krokodil churning out incessant cartoons of capitalists in top hats being thumped by Communists weren’t satirists. Like Trudeau, they were establishment hacks pimping out propaganda.
Their work was usually more talented than Trudeau’s, but it was just the establishment talking to itself.
The left has adopted “Punching up” and “Punching down” as the legitimate metrics for comedy and satire, but real ‘Punching down’ comes from the establishment. When an establishment satirist like Trudeau attacks satirists who risked their lives challenging a real authority with the power to kill them, what he is really saying is that satire should only serve the ends and agendas of the establishment.
That is the very definition of “Punching down”. When the establishment tells you what satire is supposed to be, then anyone following those rules is punching down.
The entire rhetoric of “Punching up” and “Punching down” limits comedy to a crude Marxist structural pyramid. The left “Punches up” by building alliances with “disenfranchised” groups in order to rule. It then uses them as shields to punch down. Establishment hacks like Trudeau do not refrain from “Punching down” by mocking ordinary Americans who lack their wealth and access to power. They claim that by doing so they’re really punching up on behalf of their disenfranchised shields.
But the model collapses altogether when we consider a segment of the population that believes that everyone must submit to its religion and is willing to back up that demand with lethal force.
Muslims are by no means Trudeau’s “powerless, disenfranchised minority”, but suppose they were. There was a time when the followers of Adolf Hitler were powerless and disenfranchised. Power is not just about the guy who wins an election. It’s also about his shadow who is willing to kill to take over.
Mocking him takes a lot of guts.
It takes no guts to throw another few barbs at Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry for the entertainment of your lefty audience. Not only won’t their followers kill you, but they can’t even disinvite you to any of the better establishment parties. Mocking them is actually a ticket into the cocktail party circuit. It’s as subversive as Mark Russell tinkling away on the piano.
We have a lot of “Punching up” satire in America which is as toothless as that tinkling. We have few satirists willing to mock Obama because that is a ticket out of every single cocktail party ever.
Saturday Night Live could mock every president, but it drew the line at Obama. It occasionally builds jokes around him, but it doesn’t draw an exaggerated ridiculous caricature of him the way that it did of Clinton and Bush. We’ve seen a drunken lecherous Bill Clinton. We’ve seen a drunken numbskull Bush.
There’s been nothing like that on the show for Obama. There can’t be. It would be too dangerous.
There is in fact an easy way to tell whether your satire is really punching up or down. Try it and see what happens. If you run into a gigantic backlash that impacts your career and your safety, then you’re actually punching up. Just ask a rodeo clown out of Missouri who went out wearing an Obama mask and ended having to go into hiding while the Governor, a Senator and the Kansas City Star called for his head. Bans were issued, blacklists were assembled and Obama fans threatened to burn down his house.
That’s what real “Punching up” looks like. Real punching up might mock establishment journalistic awards named after the world’s greatest fake fighter pilot not named Brian Williams.
To comedy cowards like Gary Trudeau that would be the reprehensible antics of free speech fanatics who don’t know that there’s good satire and abuse of satire. They don’t understand that there are jokes that you’re supposed to tell and jokes that you never should. They might draw Mohammed, and then in response to the outrage, draw him again and again.
What do you do with people like that? You shoot them. And when they’re dead, you smear them. Because if you don’t, their courage exposes you for the cowardly hack that you really are.
That’s what real establishment satirists do. Just ask the old dead Soviet cartoonists of Krokodil.
Don’t miss Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield on The Glazov Gang discuss The Real Meaning of ‘Allahu Akbar’.
Cathy
chulai1968
Truth Prevailing
Publius Huldah
Freedom Rider
kathleen
radioroger2015
revaustinmiles
Steve
truckjunkie